Patents by Inventor Corey Nicholas Bufi

Corey Nicholas Bufi has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20090245026
    Abstract: A system for generating a threat alert in an infrastructure component is provided. The system includes multiple acoustic sensors disposed in a protected zone around the infrastructure component, wherein each of the sensors is configured to detect a signal corresponding to an outcome that causes damage to the infrastructure component. The system also includes a processing circuitry coupled to each of the multiple acoustic sensors. The processing circuitry includes at least one analog-to-digital converter configured to digitize the signal. The processing circuitry also includes a digital signal processor configured to process the acoustic signal in a sequential routine. The sequential routine includes a noise filtering routine configured to filter background noise from the acoustic signal and generate a filtered signal. The sequential routine also includes a source identification routine configured to identify a source generating the acoustic signal based upon the filtered signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Corey Nicholas Bufi, Sahika Genc
  • Publication number: 20090228980
    Abstract: A system for detecting an anomalous access event is provided. The system includes a tracking module configured to provide multiple graphical representations corresponding to a number of paths traversed by an individual at various times. The system also includes a similarity metric module configured to compare the multiple graphical representations and detect an anomalous access event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Virginia Ann Zingelewicz, Catherine Mary Graichen, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Renee Ann Guhde
  • Patent number: 7533008
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system to simulate a process of discrete tasks having a plurality of available resources associated therewith. The system may comprise a model database to store a plurality of models, each model including a plurality of task and resource parameters; a model portion in communication with the model database and configured to receive commands from a user, to retrieve one of the plurality of models and corresponding task and resource parameters in response to a user command, to receive input data corresponding to attributes of one or more task and resource parameters from a business database system, and to generate a simulation model based on the selected business database system and the input data; and a model server to perform a simulation of the process by processing the simulation model and to generate an output data file containing output data representative of the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2009
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: Kimberley Marie Mangino, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Brian Nathan Dingman, Snehil Gambhir
  • Patent number: 7058652
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for identifying text in a word set. The method may include retrieving a target term set including a plurality of target terms; retrieving the word set including a plurality of text words; normalizing target terms in the target term set to generate normalized terms; normalizing text words in the word set to generate normalized words; comparing the normalized terms with the normalized words to determine (1) a first match between a first normalized term and a first normalized word; and (2) a second match between a second normalized term and a second normalized word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Capital Corporation
    Inventors: David Anthony Czarnecki, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Melvin Kurt Simmons
  • Publication number: 20040034649
    Abstract: The invention provides a system and method for identifying text in a word set. The method may include retrieving a target term set including a plurality of target terms; retrieving the word set including a plurality of text words; normalizing target terms in the target term set to generate normalized terms; normalizing text words in the word set to generate normalized words; comparing the normalized terms with the normalized words to determine (1) a first match between a first normalized term and a first normalized word; and (2) a second match between a second normalized term and a second normalized word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: David Anthony Czarnecki, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Melvin Kurt Simmons
  • Publication number: 20040034635
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system, method and computer program product for identifying and matching company names to business event information. A crawler crawls and downloads documents by starting from a pre-defined set of links. A parser breaks down the downloaded documents into components like text, titles and links. An evaluator evaluates the parsed documents and selects documents on the basis of amount of relevant information contained in the documents. An information extractor identifies the occurrences of company names in the text contained in the selected documents. It also identifies occurrences of business events, specified by a pre-defined set of event phrases, in the text contained in the selected documents. Further, the information extractor matches the identified company names to the identified business events in order to generate company-business event pairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2003
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: David Anthony Czarnecki, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Melvin Kurt Simmons, Richard Martin Spackmann
  • Publication number: 20040034857
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system to simulate a process of discrete tasks having a plurality of available resources associated therewith. The system may comprise a model database to store a plurality of models, each model including a plurality of task and resource parameters; a model portion in communication with the model database and configured to receive commands from a user, to retrieve one of the plurality of models and corresponding task and resource parameters in response to a user command, to receive input data corresponding to attributes of one or more task and resource parameters from a business database system, and to generate a simulation model based on the selected business database system and the input data; and a model server to perform a simulation of the process by processing the simulation model and to generate an output data file containing output data representative of the simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2002
    Publication date: February 19, 2004
    Inventors: Kimberley Marie Mangino, Corey Nicholas Bufi, Brian Nathan Dingman, Snehil Gambhir